Tesla Motors is definitely what you call a company on the up. The Elon Musk-led entity has grown in recent years to a point where their unveilings carry the weight of an Apple keynote. Faced with the need to expand, the company recently sealed an agreement for a dealership space in Buena Park in Orange County, CA. Tesla has leased the space from RST Associates LLC, with both parties being represented in the deal by Avison Young representative, Jodi V. Meade.

Tesla Motors continues to seek the perfect location for its brand new battery factory that would supply lithium-ion batteries to the firm’s Fremont assembly plant. Tucson is among the finalists and the Palo Alto, California-based manufacturer of zero-emission electric vehicles has just recently received a building permit from the city’s development services department.

The city of Tucson has made it public that luring electric car maker Tesla Motors’ $5 billion investment to the area among its top priorities for the couple of months. Besides accentuating Tucson’s tech presence in the Southwest, the investment would come with the benefit of creating 6,500 jobs in the area.

Four Southwest states - Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada - are in the running to be the home of Tesla Motors’ $5 billion “Gigafactory” that would mass produce lithium-ion batteries for electric cars and create 6,500 jobs.

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